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Jun 26, 2016 - 3:43 PM
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bobbengan
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Not sure about that composer(s), unfortunately.
I'll throw a vote out there: Utah-based composer Merrill Jenson. His scores (mostly for Mormon propaganda films with the occasional IMAX film or two along the way) over the past thirty years have largely been performed by any number of the big London orchestras, feature broad and expansive Americana writing of the Broughton/Williams style, and often feature superb orchestrations via the composer himself - But good luck getting anyone around here to discuss him. His Fantasy/Western score from WINDWALKER (1980) is just fantastic and highly original, not sounding like any Western score I've ever heard before. Imagine the softer thematic moments of CONAN combined with Goldsmith's experimental ideas from that time period, with a dash of Joe Hisaishi's music from PRINCESS MONONOKE... And I guess you're getting close there. It's really inspired and evocative and should have put this composer on Hollywood's radar.
How about Anthony Guefen? Did a few orchestral horror scores in the 80's like DEADLY EYES and THE STUFF and then totally vanished. Can't find a single word about this guy on IMDB. It's like he doesn't exist!
Then you have a number of hugely gifted library music composers like John Fox, Tony Hymas, Gregor Narholz and Wolfgang Kafer who have scored only a very small handful of films (and totally obscure ones at that) despite having a massive output of incredibly well-executed orchestral library music. Hymas and Fox in particular had amazing gifts for melody and lush, intricate orchestrations. Alas, Fox passed away last year.
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The most obscure film composer is therefore likely someone whose name will ever be mentioned in this forum.
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Does anyone know anything more about "Joseph James"?
I remember reading the website of the 2 composers who made up this team. When I read it (5 years ago?) they were still working together, and openly acknowledge PRIEST OF LOVE in their credits (a score I just recently decided to dig up and hear again, I like it so well.)
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